Hi Eli, I might be a bit out of exercize with lisp, but have added these to my .emacs:
(setq select-active-regions nil) (setq mouse-drag-copy-region t) (setq x-select-enable-clipboard nil) (add-hook 'term-setup-hook '(lambda () (global-set-key [mouse-2] 'mouse-yank-at-click))) to get back the old behavior (according to the changes you sent me, hopefully), but they do not produce the old behavior. -Angelo On 4 June 2018 at 17:45, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote: > > From: Angelo Borsotti <angelo.borso...@gmail.com> > > Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2018 09:16:07 +0200 > > > > Why private email? > > > > It is the only one I have. > > Your original mail was sent to help-emacs-windows@gnu.org, which is an > Emacs-related mailing list. Unless you have your reasons, please CC > the list on your replies. > > > 1. left mouse button select a piece of text and then click again: > nothing is saved in the system clipboard, > > but it can be pasted with mouse-wheel > > 2. right mouse button: it selects from the cursor to the pointer, but > it does not save in the system clipboard. > > It can be pasted with mouse-wheel > > 3. copy icon in the toolbar: it saves in the system clipboard. The > text can be pasted with mouse-wheel or > > with the paste icon > > 4. the paste icon pastes the text contained in the system clipboard > > Ah, in that case it's a deliberate change in behavior: marking text by > mouse no longer puts text into the clipboard, by default. See the > following fragment from NEWS for Emacs 24: > > ** Selection changes. > > The default handling of clipboard and primary selections has been > changed to conform with modern X applications. In short, most > commands for killing and yanking text now use the clipboard, while > mouse commands use the primary selection. > > In the following, we provide a list of these changes, followed by a > list of steps to get the old behavior back if you prefer that. > > *** `select-active-regions' now defaults to t. > Merely selecting text (e.g. with drag-mouse-1) no longer puts it in > the kill ring. The selected text is put in the primary selection, if > the system possesses a separate primary selection facility (e.g. X). > > **** `select-active-regions' also accepts a new value, `only'. > This means to only set the primary selection for temporarily active > regions (usually made by mouse-dragging or shift-selection); > "ordinary" active regions, such as those made with C-SPC followed by > point motion, do not alter the primary selection. > > **** `mouse-drag-copy-region' now defaults to nil. > > *** mouse-2 is now bound to `mouse-yank-primary'. > This pastes from the primary selection, ignoring the kill-ring. > Previously, mouse-2 was bound to `mouse-yank-at-click'. > > *** `x-select-enable-clipboard' now defaults to t on all platforms. > > *** `x-select-enable-primary' now defaults to nil. > Thus, commands that kill text or copy it to the kill-ring (such as > M-w, C-w, and C-k) also use the clipboard---not the primary selection. > > **** The "Copy", "Cut", and "Paste" items in the "Edit" menu are now > exactly equivalent to M-w, C-w, and C-y respectively. > > **** Note that on MS-Windows, `x-select-enable-clipboard' was already > non-nil by default, as Windows does not support the primary selection > between applications. > > *** To return to the previous behavior, do the following: > > **** Change `select-active-regions' to nil. > **** Change `mouse-drag-copy-region' to t. > **** Change `x-select-enable-primary' to t (on X only). > **** Change `x-select-enable-clipboard' to nil. > **** Bind `mouse-yank-at-click' to mouse-2. >
